Police arrest boyfriend of girl who was shot to death

Hannah Brickley

Courtesy WSOC-TV

By Tina Terry, WSOC-TV

Published: Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 06:08 PM.

Shelby police said Saturday night they arrested the boyfriend of a 17-year-old girl who was shot and killed early Saturday morning.
Police spent much of Saturday investigating Hannah Bickley’s death before issuing an arrest warrant for her boyfriend, Aaron Byers. She was shot on Holder Drive around 2:30 a.m. Saturday.
“She just said ‘Lord it’s a body lying in my yard,’” Carolyn Webber said.
Webber said her sister walked out of her house and saw Bickley lying in her yard. Minutes earlier, officers were responding to a robbery on Holder Drive, just a few blocks away, when the girl’s 19-year-old boyfriend flagged them down from his car.
He told them that he and Bickley were the ones robbed on Holder Drive and she was shot in the process. Emergency workers pulled the girl into the yard to try and save her, but they pronounced her dead at the scene.
“I just hate for this to happen,” said Webber.
The boyfriend later told police that he and Bickley were out meeting a friend to give them money.
“He never got the friend to come to the door as they were leaving and taking off is when the robbery (and) shooting took place,” Shelby Police Capt. Rick Stafford said.
Police said they believe Bickley was possibly a student at Cherryville High School and that she was slated to graduate this year
Anyone with information pertaining to thecrime, officials ask that you call Crime Stoppers at 704-481-TIPS (8477).

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Shelby police said Saturday night they arrested the boyfriend of a 17-year-old girl who was shot and killed early Saturday morning.
Police spent much of Saturday investigating Hannah Bickley’s death before issuing an arrest warrant for her boyfriend, Aaron Byers. She was shot on Holder Drive around 2:30 a.m. Saturday.
“She just said ‘Lord it’s a body lying in my yard,’” Carolyn Webber said.
Webber said her sister walked out of her house and saw Bickley lying in her yard. Minutes earlier, officers were responding to a robbery on Holder Drive, just a few blocks away, when the girl’s 19-year-old boyfriend flagged them down from his car.
He told them that he and Bickley were the ones robbed on Holder Drive and she was shot in the process. Emergency workers pulled the girl into the yard to try and save her, but they pronounced her dead at the scene.
“I just hate for this to happen,” said Webber.
The boyfriend later told police that he and Bickley were out meeting a friend to give them money.
“He never got the friend to come to the door as they were leaving and taking off is when the robbery (and) shooting took place,” Shelby Police Capt. Rick Stafford said.
Police said they believe Bickley was possibly a student at Cherryville High School and that she was slated to graduate this year
Anyone with information pertaining to thecrime, officials ask that you call Crime Stoppers at 704-481-TIPS (8477).